Car-platform



ing is a full, clear, and exact description.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

WILLIAM FULLER BROWN AND CHARLES LENARD HAIGHT, OF POUCH- KEEPSIE, NEWYORK.

CAR-PLATFORM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,614, dated December4, 1883. Application filed September 8, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM F. BROWN and CHARLES L. HAIGHT, ofPoughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Catch for Car-Platforms, of which thefollow- The object of our invention is to provide a new and improvedcatch or hook for car-platforms to prevent the cars from telescoping.

The invention consists of a hook secured to the bottom of thecar-platform, said hook projecting upward above and from the saidplatform.

The invention also consists in guards on the platforms, and in otherparts and details, as will be fully set forth hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart ofthis specification, in which similar letters of -reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sidefelevation of two car-platforms provided with ourimproved platformcatch. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig.3 is aplan view of the under side of one of the platforms.

To the bottom of each car-platform A two hooks, B, are pivoted to swinglaterally, the hooks being bent upward at the edges of the platforms,then project horizontally from the platform, the upper surface of thehorizontal parts being beveled toward the free ends. Those parts of thehooks on the bottom of the platform pass through staples C, to check thelaterally-swinging movement of the hooks. The platforms are providedwith guards D,

under which the upper parts of the hooks pass, so that they'cannotinjure the feet of the persons on the platform. The hooks are pivoted,so that they will remain in position when the cars run on curves. Whencars run against each other in a collision, one car rises above theother and the upper car telescopes into the other. If theabove-described hooks are provided, the cars are prevented from ris-'ing one above the other, and telescoping is thus prevented.

If desired, the hooks can be secured to the top of the platform, and canproject under the opposite platform.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with a car-platform, of thepivoted hooks Band the staple C, secured to the bottom of the platform,substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with a car-platform, of the hooks B and the guardsD, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination, with a car-platform, of the hooks B, secured to thebottom of the platform, projecting upward on the edge of the same, andprojecting outward from the plat form, substantially asherein shown anddescribed.

\VILLIAM FULLER BROWN. CHARLES LENARD HAIGHT.

Witnesses:

ALFRED G. ROTHEY, JAMES H. OSTRANDER.

